Tuesday, July 13, 2010

"Paper tole, also known as three-dimensional decoupage, is the art of handcrafting three-dimensional pictures from flat prints. Paper tole art is created by skillfully cutting, shaping, and assembling pieces of paper layered onto an image until a three-dimensional version of the image emerges."

The art of 'Paper Tole' has been an interest of mine, for many years. Although I have loomed beads, since I was twelve, I did find time in between to learn more about other art mediums. I have completed so many pictures using this 3D technique.

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I love it..I also was into 3D paper crafting. Made one for my ex mother in law in the 70s of a 16th or 17 century curio shop. Even almost 20 yrs. after our divorce, it was still hanging in her living room. My ex husband brought it to my daughter when his mother died. She now has it hanging in her home. How unique that you would combine two completely different mediums and genres to execute a totally new approach to beading and jewelry making.

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Beading, on a loom, has been a part of my life and feelings,
since I was very young. Being in a different aspect of my life, I realize
that I have always been drawn to the serenity and meditative qualities
of this medium. I find a calm, which cannot be defined, other then through my 'exhale' of satisfaction, when I consider another creation 'complete'.
---Erin Simonetti